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with a cigarette in his mouth indicating he may have known his killer. >> reporter: forensics units are on the scene as police investigate the latest murder of a fallen officer. that as another officer remains posted outside the victim's home. did not want to be identified tells wgn notification of family has been difficult because the fallen officer was an only child. and he already lost both of his parents. a neighbor recalls him as a good man. >> he used to come over to see his mom. and that's the only time i would see him. >> and you mentioned his mom passed away. >> yes, of cancer. >> just after 6:30 last night when the officer was found shot to death inside his personal suv. sources say it's a case of homicide because the shots were fired from inside the car. which was parked along the 2900 block of west side street. a police officer happens to live on the block and he was one to call 911. >> heard shots fired.

outside the house. and outside the window. and saw what i thought was a potential offender. >> the officer's gun was eventually located in the vehicle along with his wallet. indicating robbery was not the motive. as his vehicle and body were transported from the scene late last night, dozens of officers formed a silent blue line and the police superintendent addressed the loss in a midnight news conference. >> great deal of sadness that once again i stand before you announcing the death of a chicago police officer. >> and this is the fourth killing of a chicago police officer so far this year. again, release of his identity is pending notification of his family and in this case it may be a case of distant family. we are live in the rightwood neighborhood, nancy loo, wgn news. the man killed when he stepped in to help a woman being robbed on the west side

has been identified as 55-year- old bobby butler. happened around 6:00 last night in the 2100 block of south millard avenue. details are unclear but the woman's purse had been stolen. butler was shot in the abdomen. paramedics took him to mount sinai hospital where he died. the warm weather we were enjoying yesterday, well, you know it took a quick turn for the worse and now people are cleaning up the mess left over from storms and even tornadoes that hit northern illinois. wgn's muriel clair is live in one of the hardest hit towns. caledonia just east of rockford. >> reporter: well, the 200 residents of caledonia can be thankful that their lives were spared and that they escaped serious injury. last night, severe weather and around boone county walloped the tiny farming community of caledonia. a tornado touched down tearing the roofs off of houses. shattering windows and reducing

barns to rubble and severely damaging the villages grain elevator and this noon the streets of caledonia are abuzz with comeout personnel and residents recalling the nightmare and preparing to move on. >> we really can't get any access to the second story unless we use a ladder here. so we are going on to the small roof and going in and trying to grab certain things. a lot of stuff is destroyed. we want to grab a few things. pictures and things that you can't replace. there are a lot of stories out here yet to be told. as i said before if you can just look -- i'm going to step down and let -- and have the camera to show you exactly what is going on here. you can just see it's a lot of workmen. a lot of people moving about and in the homes there are about 50 homes in this village. i think four of them were

completely damaged. and completely destroyed. and the others sustained severe damage. it's going to be awhile before they are able to before things get back to normal. as i said earlier when i talked to the residents here, they said they are just thankful that they are alive to talk about it. in caledonia, muriel clair, wgn news. >> certainly are lucky. thank you. you know, tornadoes touched down in southeastern wisconsin damaging homes and farm building and cutting power to thousands' one twister hit just north of the illinois border near the vil dges of fontana, ripped apart homes and barns and another hit near union grove in racine county. that blew over semi-trucks spreading debris across parts of i-94. authorities had to close a stretch of the busy interstate until the storm died down. prosecutors in indiana now have the police report on a sexual assault allegedly involving a notre dame football player. elizabeth seeberg of northbrook

attended st. mary's college. she died after overdosing on prescription medication. nine days earlier she reported to notre dame police she was sexually assaulted by a football player on campus. 9 local prosecutor's office says it received a police report last week. but the prosecutor says he didn't know about the case until he read about it in sunday's "chicago tribune." >> skokie police are not ruling out homicide after a man died from being run over by a golf cart. lawrence chad died november 10 from injuries he suffered at evanston country club. he was golfing alone and the medical examiner ruled his death an accident. but police say they have to cover all angles and have not ruled out someone else being involved. >> illness we know as stomach flu is turning up around the chicago area this fall. it's official name is noro vie rls. 235ebg9s-- affects testinal tract. the. 59 schools in the southern suburbs have reported norovirus cases. mchenry department of health

says norovirus is suspected of making 129 people ill in three long term care facilities. 14 cases have been confirmed. will county has not seen any norovirus clusters yet. the public health department there remains on alert. evanston residents will pay more in property taxes next year to help ease that city's budget crunch. the 3% hike will prevent layoffs. evanston aldermen decided not to close the city's north and south library branches choosing instead to let the library board figure out how to allocate its share of the budget. next on the midday news, get out your score card, the race for mayor is the crowdest it's been in years. and campaigns are in full gear. standing at brink of war, south korea vowing fierce retaliation following a deadly shelling by the north. >> and one airline says they will offer refunds for passengers worried about new airport security measures.

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president obama is in indiana to tout good news. the president and vice- president are visiting the chrysler transmission plant. chrysler putting up $843 million to modernize. big news, 2200 people will keep their jobs. the president and vice- president of traveling is part of their white house to main street tour and will talk about this success of the bailout for the auto industry. chrysler received more than $12 billion. governor quinn and state senator bill brady are expected to meet for lunch this hour. symbolic meeting at man piece of deli is aimed at showing the men can work together following a brutal negative tv ad campaign in the race for governor. quinn says he has no hard feelings and invited brady for

monday's close election. governor won by less than 20,000 votes. the largest field of candidates for mayor of chicago in half a century are off and running the. status of rahm emanuel is the big question, specifically his residency. julian crews is live now in pilsen with more on the story. >> good afternoon. this record field of 20 candidates is off and running. it's an all out sprint to the february election which is not that far away. but the spotlight now shifts to rahm emanuel and the all important residency issue that has the potential at least to derail his run for mayor. >> have i not seen anything that would suggest to me that he meet the requirement of the law. >> on the controversy surrounding rahm emanuel's residency status in chicago.

davis saying the bottom line is the law has to be followed. critics say the law is crystal clear. a candidate to be mayor has to have lived here at least a full year before the election. emanuel who of course until recently was in washington in the barack obama white house owns a single family home on the north side but he has been renting it to this man, rob halpen, the businessman who in a i -- astonishing twist of fate to run for mayor. as tomorrow's hearing draws near, other candidates focus on the short campaign now officially underway with the record field. with an endorsement from former school ceo, gary chico is playing to his strength. standing in front of arouseco academy in pilsen, one of dozen of schools he helped build, gary chico says he is not focusing on rahm emanuel. >> i'm going to say for the record again today for the tenth time i am not going to

challenge rahm emanuel's residency. >> this election has got to be about who is ready from day one to run this city. 0& there is no one more familiar with this city it's neighborhood, city council and politics and issues than gary chico. >> reporter: he still has many admirers here in chicago so his endorsement certainly has the potential to carry some weight with the voters. one final note, among those meeting yesterday's filing deadline to submit the signatures, the supporters of former u.s. senator roland burrised a -- submitted more than 20,000 signatures. in pilsen, julian crews, wngs wgn -- wgn news. so, so interesting. joining us with more on the race for mayor is our political analyst, paul lisnek. thank you for being here. we have so much to talk about but the first thing is 20 candidates. that can't last until election day. >> and we will see a lot of folks drop out between now and the end of the month because

the challenges can be registered by the end of the month. a lot don't have enough significance. one is alderman bernie stone's son. he only had hundreds of signatures. that may have gone up. you will see people drop out. >> we have a republican running in this heavily democratic race. his name is rob halpen. does he have a chance? >> his credentials are that he lives in rahm emanuel's house and smokes cigars and is an industrial businessman. that's all we know. he will tell us he has no experience. he says it looks coincidental that he is running living in rahm's house. can i tell you what this is about? i'm putting it out there say this. in order to challenge rahm's residency which will happen in the coming days, what the lawyer wants to be able to do who says it's not paid by left meeks doing it for concerned go before a judge. only one person can live in that house. either halpen or rahm.

judge, who is the candidate? i think that's an interesting pressure to say somebody has got to go. >> let's talk about that residency requirement. have to be here for a year. rahm says he owned the house, had every intention of coming back to it. what are the chances this may really impact him negatively. >> arguments both ways. here is the bottom line. the one that says hes has 90,000 signatures. that doesn't keep you on the ballot. what does keep him on the ballot i believe is going to be the fact that he answered a call of national service. >> sort of like the military draft. >> exactly. if someone is off to afghanistan and want to run are we going to look at that service person, you weren't here, i don't think so and it does. and he didn't go off to say i took a job somewhere. he served at the pleasure and order of the president and that counts. >> let's talk about the ballot spots. reverend meeks wants the last spot on the ballot. >> well, there is that big rush up front and we will have a lottery for those folks. the main candidatesuric the last? well, political science is clear and social science is

clear. the best places to be on a ballot first and last. because when people go into the voting booth they can't bother with those 18 names that might be between them. they will look at top and bottom and odds are unless they are committed to somebody they will pick one of those. >> big surprises was roland burris. where did he come if? >> not a surprise to him but he didn't file. the friends of roland burris who filed. he is in on it. let's be honest. senator burris is a public servant and will run for anything if tossed his way. that's right. still room in the mausoleum. >> he didn't run for the senate seat because he was out of money. how could he run for mayor? >> you said it. he didn't run because he had no money. the question is will a mayoral run bring him money? the odds are probably not plus he has another factor. african-american vote. while i don't believe people vote just on race or nationality, there are now four essentially major african- american candidates in this thing and somebody has got to

sort of align here and pull out the pressure to make it work. >> one african-american is not in it is sandi jackson. what happened? she was touted as candidate. >> and she did file. she has until monday to decide. either run for alderman or city clerk. for city clerk she is running against state rep suzannah mendoza who wants that. can't predict what she will do but she has a safe aldermanic seat or has a bit of a challenge if she goes for city clerk. you have to be ready to give up public service if you are willing to go for something you may not win. i think she may stay put. we will see. as far as the mayor's race, too much pressure and too much pressure on the jackson family. going away and quieting down and it will come back if she put her name. that's what we are talking about. thank you for a concise wrap-up. >> and we will be seeing you a lot in the coming weeks. >> just beginning. >> well, major break through being announced in the fight against aids. >> and another recall involving

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i'm bloomberg angie lau live at the cme group in chicago. some grim foreclosure news on the existing housing report. existing home sales for more than forecast last month dropping 2.2% last month and foreclosure moratoriums housing market. national association of realtors also saying that distressed properties accounted for a big chunk of sales, 34%. on a brighter -- brighter note the u.s. economy grew faster than previously calculated. the commerce department gdp report shows that the nation's

economy grew at a 2.5% annual rate in the third quarter. that's up from 2% estimated last month. that's thanks to increased shipments abroad and americans spending more here at home. meantime instead of a sweater from j.crew for the holidays how about the whole company? j.crew bought for nearly $3 billion by private investor group tpg and leonard green and partners. paying 16% premium over yesterday's closing price. j.crew operates 215 retail stores in the nation. black friday bargain shoppers, take note. "new york post" reporting that while wal-mart will be opening after midnight on black friday for an open house, many of its biggest discounts won't be available until 5:00 a.m. you will have to wait 5:00 hour's wal-mart has said it will match the price of competitor's ads on black friday. so maybe the wait will be worth

it. on wall street right now, stocks are down across the board at the -- after north korea lobbed shells at south korean island and concern growing that europe's debt crisis will spread regardless of that bailout of ireland's banks. live at the cme group in chicago, i'm angie lau, bloomberg news. challenging time for food donations at greater chicago food depository. they are calling it a new normal. the number of people seeking some assistance is grown in the last year. >> individuals in cook county is turning to a food pantry or soup kitchen. and at the same time it's more and more challenging for us to get donated quality food to serve the people in need. >> food depository says it uses manufacturers and retail grocery stores to get food and now it is urging all of us to make it priority to donate items. the director says it will be a big help to them if we toss a few items into the food

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military exercises. south korea says attack is clearly military provocation and is unacceptable. >> navy retaliate firmly once again if north korea attacks again. north korea will have to pay the price for this attack. >> north korea threatened to continue strikes against south korea if it violates their disputed sea border by a fraction. the white house condemning north korea attack and says u.s. is firmly committed to south korea's defense. tsa employees are now complaining about the new enhanced security procedures and the physical and verbal abuse they are taking from upset passengers because of them. a tsa officer posted this on a blogging website. saying molester, pervert, disgusting and embarrassment creep, these are all words i have heard today at work describing me. these comments are painful and demoralizing. the union that represents the employees is asking the tsa to provide pamphlets to each passengers describing their

rights and details of these new procedures. delta airlines is offering refunds for customers worried about new airport security measures. airline says it will consider refunds on a case by case basis for passengers who cancel their travel plan's delta says it is not seeing large numbers of related cancellations. american airlines continental and u.s. airways are not changing their poll poichesz their customers can only get their money back if they bought refundable tickets. >> if the thought of those full body scanners makes you uncomfortable, special underwear might make you feel better. a company is offering underwear for both men and women that will hide your private parts from the scanning machine. for men there is a figure leaf. for women strategically placed clasped hands. made of a mix of soft metals that do not set off metal detectors can conform to your body. some say they would be in favor of covering up. >> don't know exactly what they are seeing when you go through the machine. >> makers of the underwear say

they are made to not only cover people up but also to help protect your body from exposure to any hazardous rays. what a difference a day makes. tom skilling is next with our much colder forecast. zthtjthththtjtjtjt@tjtjtjtjtétjt

nice shot of the shedd aquarium there. wonderful place to be inside today. wow, what a blast of cold air. >> over 30 degrees colder today than yesterday and we had those t-s yesterday -- those tornadoes yesterday. we checked, less than 2% of chicago area tornadoes have occurred in november.

that's how rare it was. we had record breaking high temperatures across a good chunk of the mid west. temperatures went over 70 in peoria, springfield, st. louis, rockford hit 69. that was a new record and we missed our record by just two degrees today. -- yesterday. today, it's an entirely different ball game. we are back in wintry air and we have these little scattered cumulus clouds coming in. but the chill is the big story. this rolling off the growing snow pack to the north, we just checked about 34% of the country's covered by snow now. and only 10% was at this time a year ago. sneaking up on us. and the wintry weather is occurring over that snow pack up through the northern plains. we will show you that in a moment and the rockies, they even had two inches of snow yesterday in seattle, washington. we had all of our precipitation in liquid form with bursts of lightning. one point we had a thousand cloud-to-ground lightning strokes going in these wind storms. over two inches at latin school

here in chicago, downers grove. western springs and wilmette all had an inch and a half of rain and now in the gusty winds. we plot the gusts right there for you and show your the temperatures. note the temp and then the windchill. feels like 26 in gary. like 23 in joliet. where they actual thermtser reading is 32. like 16 in south elgin and in the low 20s in schaumburg. this will be the coldest day since march 2. way back last spring. and the coldest day of autumn. with 32 right now at o'hare and a 36 high predicted. 33 at midway airport. 31 at hinsdale and here are the temperatures across the metro area. with some of the lows here. look at the lows this morning in monroe, is with wirs, kenosha, algonquin and windfield. chilly and the same thing tonight. the winds will turn off the lake and will start warming us up. the view from buffalo grove and here is where winter is. livingten, montana. look at the snows coming down

there. where the latest snowstorm and storm system to come into that region of the country. that's going to tug more cold air down on us over the weekend and later this week. but for thanksgiving it could mean some rain. it could start as a rain/sleet mixture tomorrow or tomorrow night. at this hour it's 13 below at cut back, montana and great falls. look at the windchills. 30 to 40 below zero is what it feels like and here are the temperatures in the dakotas. this stuff just sits there. that cold air waiting to pounce on us and we have one little lobe of it today. see all of the bare ground it's traveling over. this is snow pack up here. see the last of the snowstorm that hit last weekend and then the snow cover, the solid stuff runs up to the arctic. so the chilly air is spilling off that and coming into our area. this is one storm. that's the one that produced tornadoes and severe thunderstorms yesterday. this twist in the clouds is the new one. this will swing in and then curve across the chicago area on thanksgiving day.

the rains were heavy enough to produce flooding yesterday. that was the biggest rain we had in 81 days here since way back in early september. that's almost three months. so we needed the rain but the tornadoes we could have done without and they were something up to the north and west of us at caledonia, union grove, wisconsin suffered a lot of damage. homes and businesses seriously damaged in both of these communities. now there are winter weather advisories to our northwest and you never know it looking at our sunny skies here. 32 in chicago. but 19 in the twin cities. two at williston. one below at billings and 20 below at regina and 13 below in northern alberta, canada. some chilly air and we are on the south plank of it right now. winds are gusting over 20 miles per hour as you can see. there are some of wind gusts around the chicago area and that adds to the chill which we calculate here for you. single digit windchills and sub zero up to the north. and look at these temperatures changes. boy, we haven't had a map like

this for awhile. peoria is 36 degrees colder than it was at this time yesterday. we are 31 degrees colder than yesterday. and 35 degrees colder out in dubuque. that's an amazing change. that's like a whole seasonal change in a 24 hour period like we went from late summer right straight to winter and that's sometimes the way it works around here. here is our forecast. sunny, a 30 degrees colder than yesterday and blustery with high temperatures 36. winds are west at 8 to 18. but after a 67-degree high like yesterday, that stings. it's noticeably cooler. tonight scattered clouds and colder. 24 at o'hare. upper teens inland. but winds will start coming around to the east, southeast off the water and that actually may start lifting the temperatures a little bit in the city by morning. clouding over, strengthening wins from the southeast and rain or ice pellets or a mix of the two developing in the afternoon. high of 42. becomes rain tomorrow night and

might even include a thunderstorm' then opens rainy on thanksgiving day early in the day. then snow showers at night. start at 44 and fall through the 30s. only be in the upper 20s on friday. >> gently into these chaifngz season. >> we don't. on the other hand, we run every available second out of that warm air mass. it was a treat. so this is overdue. >> with all of the holiday travelers, that wednesday weather may be a problem. >> you know, i will tell you, going north, if you are going to some trouble that may be the areas. even the northern areas may get in on the big snowstorm. we will see. >> thanks. >> going to get cold. now here is the trivia question. first issue of which magazine was published on this day in 1936. was it time, "national geographic" or life? the answer still ahead on the wgn midday news.

sters if you are a bear's fan you might remember leslie frazier for the 1985 super bowl championship team. it was announced yesterday that leslie frazier will take over at interim head coach of the minnesota vikings after brad childress was released. frazier has been coaching than ten years. he is embracing his first head coaching opportunities and hoping to end the season strong. frazier has announced that brett favre will remain the starting quarterback. >> just embraced opportunity. that's what we have to do. that's what brad would want me to do and our assistten coaching would want me to do and our players will want know dosm i feel like we will do the right thing as we go forward as a group. we will be fine. >> the bears are hosting one of hottest teams in the nfl sunday along with one player involved in a recent mvp talk. michael vick and the

philadelphia eagles are on a three game win streak and bring one of the top offensive attacks. bear's defense is regarding one of the best in the league setting up a huge showdown at soldier field. lance briggs stopped by today giving his thoughts on containing the eagles quarterback. >> he has a lot of weapons around him. everything emphasizes what he is able to do. and he poses a huge challenge for us. in the pocket, out of the pocket. everything that they do. i'm looking forward to it. >> still a mystery. initially called it a pinch nerve. saw a specialist yesterday and now he says it's a stretched ligament. bulls have said nothing. coach tom thibodeau says he is a game time decision against the lakers tonight and that's a look at umidday sports. your live lottery drawing is next.

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time for lunch break for all you meat lovers. the new chef at the chicago firehouse restaurant is here with us and you are going to teach us how to choose a great cut of meat but also to really make it well at home. >> that's correct. at the restaurant we offer a variety of cuts of steaks. i'm lucky enough to have a wonderful butcher who takes in all of the product and we process everything in-house on a daily basis. so we are able to really give the customer a variety, quality, consistency. so that's really important for us and really important for the client when they get in on the plate. >> you are teach meag little bit on the break that i would

shy away if i saw fat running through it and you say, it depends on one special thing that fat will melt away. >> when inspectors are grading beef for quality and then price and really consistency is where the prime, choice and regular standard steaks that we get, usually at the grocery store. what we look for we usually serve prime for most cuts of meat that we do for the restaurant menu and we are looking for fat that is in the muscle and this fat is different. it's different from the layer of fat outside of the muscle. this is a tender fat that melts. >> makes it juicy but not tough to chew. >> exactly. that's what we were looking for with prime and the quality we are looking for, especially in steak houses. >> and you have other cuts. filets as well. >> i wanted to show you we do a lot of dry aging in the restaurant. is that dry age kansas city or sirloin with the bone in.

we have a dry age also bone-in rib eye. this is boneless rib eye. a porter house which is actually two muscles attached to. it the sirloin and the filet so you have best of both worlds of sirloin and filet. a bone-in filet. we have small little medallions of the filet medallions to larger. >> which ones are we going to cook up today? >> we will do a filet mignon. this is about six ounces worth. and because now -- >> salt and pepper. >> correct. >> cold and we aren't really grilling. i want to show you how to cook inside. little bit of oil goes in the pan. and we will start searing it but the thing is i like to cook it pretty slow. and we will cook it about two to three minutes on this side. we will slip it over and let it cook two or three minutes but it's very important when you cook steaks you pull them out of the fridge about 30 minutes

to an hour because really temper. >> don't put them cold in the pan. >> exactly. and this goes for a lot of things. some fish as well. i don't go straight from the fridge to the pan. >> that's good advice. >> so it will cook gently. we will flip it over and then it's important that it rests after you pull away from the pan even though you think it will get cold it's really the juices inside are redistributing. so the blood and juices are going all through the meat and that way when you cut it, it will be all the juices will be in the meat instead of the plate. >> also continuing to cook a little bit so you want to take it off a little earlier than you might like it? >> correct, correct. also i like to add a little butter. just to give talittle bit of extra fat and flavor because you can -- i like to throw in fresh herbs. some thyme, rosemary, even throw in garlic in there and that will perfume the meat without being a part of the

meat. >> the scent is lovely here. that flavor will take the spoon and just baste. >> it's all bastes with the butter and oil here. it's not going to taste like a grilled steak but it will have a different flavor but equally as good. >> it will be a seared steak. and equally delicious. we thought we would do some classicle accompaniment to steak i want to show you. usually we have potatoa gratten at the restaurant. and mixing some potatoes with some celery root and -- as soon as that's what that is. >> bulb of the celery we use it as a root vegetablism addition to slicing the potatoes we slice the celery root. we add truffle oil. a little more flavor. and also because we are seasonal, i wanted to show case a sa4r-d, a squash salad and this is roasted squash. acorn squash, and whatever you may have and then dress it in

the end and have a little walnut dressing, a little bit of parmesan or baby arugula. >> we have all of those recipes on our website. chicago firehouse is at 1401 south michigan avenue in chicago. and for more information you can check out our website, wgntv.com/midday. we will have the recipe for all of these unique and wonderful flavors including some tips on how to buy your steaks and how to cook your steaks at home. we will be right back.

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this morning. few people could get on the roads it was so icy. and there is a two day snow forecast. dina, i want to clarify. folks traveling north into northern wisconsin, northern minnesota, those areas could be kind of icy and snowy andr -- noe in the next couple of days of note the temperatures in single digits there and how widespread the cloud cover is. there is a second storm developing after that one that went through yesterday. this thing will come in and cloud us over during the day tomorrow. here is what happens over the next ten days and you will see that plod of summer warmer air. clouds may produce rain drops that freeze on the way down and make pellets of ice mixed with the rain in the afternoon. it goes to rain tomorrow night and starts as some scattered showers thanksgiving and then showers will pause for awhile redevelop in the afternoon and change to snow showers perhaps thursday night and flurries on friday. there we are at thursday with a cold air and then another storm develops late in the weekend. that's a very active patte.